December 17, 2004
iPod in Short Supply:
The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod Mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.com.
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December 16, 2004
It's A Wonderful Life...
... in 30 seconds ... with bunnies!
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12:17 PM
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Top Billings:
How a Montana Democrat bagged the hunting and fishing vote, and won the governor's mansion.
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10:23 AM
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woot!
1 day, 1 deal.
Interesting.
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08:38 AM
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France Inaugurates World's Highest Bridge:
The structure is 885 feet above the Tarn River valley in southern France.
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07:38 AM
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December 14, 2004
Google adding major libraries to its database:
The goal is to expand the Web beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and create a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world's books, scholarly papers and special collections.
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09:05 AM
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Are we puppets or free agents?
scientific discoveries, particularly advances in neuroscience, are nevertheless having profound consequences for legal procedure.
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12:46 AM
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Does death for Scott Peterson cheapen death penalty?
But what makes Peterson more deserving of the death penalty than any other murderer?
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12:45 AM
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December 13, 2004
Kooky Words the OED might add:
hoodie (n.: a hooded jacket, sweatshirt, or other garment) antedate 1990;
posedown (n.: the final stage in a bodybuilding competition) antedate 1978;
scrunchie (n.) antedate 1989;
tikka masala (n.) antedate 1975;
more...
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08:13 AM
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Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters.
“I have talked to enough (shelters) to know we are getting them. It is happening and this nation is not prepared for that.”
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07:34 AM
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Superman is Greatest Superhero:
TOP FIVE SUPERHEROES
1. Superman
2. Spider-Man
3. Batman
4. The Hulk
5. Mr Incredible
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07:07 AM
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Spaniards “did not bow to terror”:
Spain's prime minister has rejected claims that his election victory was the result of voters bowing to terror in the wake of the Madrid bombings.
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07:06 AM
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December 12, 2004
Blogs as Ads:
From a marketing perspective, blogs make perfect sense. They are cheap to produce, immersive and interactive. It's easy to measure their readership and response rates.
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03:45 PM
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2-seat, 36-speed bike:
So how would this work to travel from coast to coast?
What fun!
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09:41 AM
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Justices to Hear Case of Mexican on Death Row:
The question is whether the federal government can permit Texas to execute a Mexican whose rights under a binding international treaty were violated when he was tried and sentenced to death without Mexican officials being notified.
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08:35 AM
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Unions Plan Big Drive for Better Pay at Nonunion Wal-Mart:
The campaign will be highly unusual because it will not, at least at first, focus on unionizing Wal-Mart workers, but will instead focus on telling Americans that Wal-Mart - with wages averaging between $9 and $10 an hour - is pulling down wages and benefits at companies across the nation.
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08:32 AM
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Campaign for DNC Chief Begins:
Dean said Saturday he wants the job only if the party wants him. “If I think they want me, I'm running,” he said, adding that “this is not a hostile takeover.”
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08:28 AM
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December 10, 2004
Buy Blue:
In today's America there is a more powerful act than voting blue, and that's
buying blue!
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05:37 PM
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Kyoto Will Not Work, expert warns:
Only radical new technologies for extracting carbon dioxide directly from the air would halt global warming, said the professor...
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10:53 AM
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Britian's new Plan for Global Climate Pact:
“We are not in the business of giving George Bush a fig leaf on this issue. We want action from the US that makes a real difference.”
Sure.
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10:50 AM
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VW Microbus Beat Goes On:
The VW bus was both crudely primitive and cleverly innovative.
See also: VW Westfalia Concept.
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07:01 AM
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CorpAmerica Can't Write:
“E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited,” Dr. Hogan said. “It has companies tearing their hair out.”
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06:57 AM
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Teamsters Offer Plan To Reshape Labor Future:
... proposing to slash the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s budget and finance a four-year campaign of political and union organizing in swing states to help elect a pro-labor president.
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06:56 AM
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December 09, 2004
FCC and media duped:
A tiny fringe group and the FCC are trying to censor our media and cripple the First Amendment and lazy reporters are swallowing their garbage as they draw grand conclusions about the state of debate in America.
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08:54 AM
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Shutting Up Cell Phone Obnoxiousness:
The Society for HandHeld Hushing . . . made up this PDF with special notes you can print and hand out to anyone who feels that they absolutely need to have a loud cellphone conversation in public. . . .
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08:51 AM
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Talking While Cycling:
A Department for Transport spokesman said that cyclists who used mobiles could already be prosecuted for cycling without due care and attention.
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08:38 AM
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December 08, 2004
Mother of Matrix survives dismissal:
“credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.”
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08:07 PM
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Computers Inhibit Learning:
... while students seemed to benefit from limited use of computers at school, those who used them several times per week at school saw their academic performance decline significantly as well.
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07:44 AM
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Skeletal Systems:
A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters.
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07:22 AM
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Activists Dominate Content Complaints
According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
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07:21 AM
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December 07, 2004
College Libraries: The Long Goodbye
Walk through the stacks and begin saying your goodbyes to the shelves of printed books.
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04:10 PM
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Finland tops global school table:
On overall proficiency, Finland comes top, ahead of Korea and Canada, with Indonesia bottom. The U.S?
Not so good.
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08:09 AM
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December 06, 2004
Texas Death Sentence Cases Try Court's Patience:
Perhaps as telling is the exasperated language in decisions this year from a Supreme Court that includes no categorical opponent of the death penalty.
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09:43 PM
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December 04, 2004
Bush's Ohio win closer than thought:
Bush's margin of victory in the state that put him over the top in his re-election bid will be about 119,000 votes, which is smaller than the unofficial margin of 136,000, the county election board figures showed.
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12:54 PM
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Net diarists blog their way to a job:
If I am an HR director and I receive an application that says a person has a blog, I am going to take a look at it...
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11:12 AM
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December 01, 2004
Kill, then blog?
A 16-yr-old girl has been accused of asking two men to murder her mother; she blogged after the murder, but did she really do it?
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05:50 PM
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blogger for hire on ebay:
Currently selling for $1600 for three months of 5-10 posts/week.
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05:14 PM
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They hate our policies, not our freedom:
... the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have united otherwise-divided Muslim extremists and given terrorists organizations like Al Qaeda a boost by “raising their stature.
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05:08 PM
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